Quotes About Focus

Your genius is its own distraction. It consumes you in ways nothing else can. It pulls you away like a jealous lover.

If you want to be great, you have to pursue your craft without quitting. You have to show up every day with the desire to get better.

You can judge an idea by your obsession with it. Look at how you spend your time, you will see what is important to you.

Live in the present, not the past or the future. The past is over; learn from it and let it go. The future is not yet here. Plan for it, but do not worry. Worry only wastes your time and energy.

This is called a bubble meditation, but you can use a word instead, focusing your mind on that word. If your mind wanders, gently and without judgment bring your attention back to the word. The word you choose can be a neutral word, like the number one. Or it can be a Sanskrit

Fancy has nothing to do with a good sword.

Practice focused apathy.

Success is a fickle mistress. If you go chasing her, she will ignore you. If you leave her alone and just go about your business, she might come looking for you.

He wanted to live without distractions; he wanted to focus all the life-force he had left on this last book. But now it was hard to concentrate. There was something new in his life. There was the painful distraction of desire.

When you look at the list of the five stops in the discipleship journey, where is your group already engaged and where do you need to focus in the future? Love of God Way of Jesus Leadership Calling Sending

Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.

98By considering Your commands I have an edge over my enemies, For I take seriously everything You say.

Let his mindset become your motivation.

21For it seems as though everyone else is busy seeking what is best for themselves instead of the things that are most important to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, ìwhat is the most valuable use of my time right now?

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

It is a condition of wisdom in the archer to be patient because when the arrow leaves the bow, it returns no more. —SA'DI

Now get to work, bitch!

When Peter sets his mind to a thing," Tanngnost thought, "far be it from reason to stop him.

Steady," Peter said, not losing a step. "Have to keep steady or all is lost.